Strip-delivering apparatus.



No. 757,565. I PA'IENTBDAPR, 19, 1904.- i G; 'nonwoon. STRIP DELIVERING APPARATUS.

I APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21, 1903. I

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UNITED STATES I Patented April 19, 1904.

PATENT FFICE.

'GEORGE NORWOOD, OF VVINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY

MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HIMSELF, AND JOHN S. RICHARDSON, OF

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STRIP-DELIVERING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,565, dated April 19,1904.

Application filed'Aug ust 21, 1903.

To all whom it may concern/.- 7

Be it known that I, GEORGE No'nwoooa citizen of the United States, residing at Win.-

Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Strip-Deli vering Apparatus, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specificalike parts.

This invention has for its object the production of an improved apparatus by which to deliver a gumrned' strip in any desired length to be used for Wrapping bundles, the strip being used by merchants instead of string or india-rubber bands.

In the drawings, Figure 1 in side elevation, partially broken out, represents my improved apparatus; Fig. 2, a plan view, the roll-case being partially broken out.

In the drawings, A represents a base or bottom board on which is erected a roll-holder comprising a part having a flange 1% open at a for the passage therethrough of the paper strip A from the roll of paper mounted in the roll-holder, the under side of said strip being gummed, so that the strip may be utilholder having the flange has feet a that are connected with the base by screws c said feet being preferably slotted. The center of the roll-holder is provided with a threaded stud of, on which is placed the roll of paper A and thereafter there is applied to said thumb-screw a, the thumb-screw causing the plate A coacting with the back of the rollholder, to clamp the roll of paper more or less tightly, so as to prevent the same from overrunning due to momentum from a jerk or pull on the paper by the person using the apparatus. It will alsobe understood that the plate A fits within the flange 0,, and consequently the rol1holder is adapted to receive a roll of paper of any desired width. Usually the roll of paper is mounted on a wooden block A sustained on the stud a The base has connected with it by suitable screws Z1 Serial No. 170,818. .(No model.)

ears of a stand B, composed of side plates,

and a cross-bar I), one edge of which is represented as slightly upturned and serrated (see Fig. 2) to constitute a cutter for the paper A when the latter is drawn upwardly, as represented by full and dotted lines, Fig. 1.

It will be understood that in use the apparatus has to receive and deliver, according to the use, gummed strips of paper of different widths, and consequently'provision has to be made for guiding these-strips. For this purpose I employ a strip-lifter 6 shown as composed of wire coiled at its ends 'to constitute springs, the coils being secured to a tube 6 and with each apparatus I may sell several tubes, each having a paper lifter and guide of a dilferent width adapted to take care of the particular widths of paper that the person buying the apparatus intends to use. That these lifters may be quickly changed to adapt;

Between the side walls of the stand B, I

have mounted a rod 0, under which the paper when engaged by the operator when.pulling the paper from the reel over the moistening device is made to bear, as shown by full and dotted lines, Fig. 1. v The operator in pulling on the paper depresses the lifter 6 which lets the paper contact at its under side with the moistening device, and when a proper length of paper has been drawn elf the operator draws the paper over the cutter b and severs the same, and immediately the lifter b rises and lifts the paper which was in contact with the moistening device when the paper was put into the dotted-line position immediately at the left of the moistening device. Fig. l, leaving the free end of thepaper below the rod 0 and sticking out of the apparatus far enough to be engaged by the operator. Be-

tween the side walls of the stand I have mounted: a box (Z, preferably of tin or other non-corrodible metal, and in this box, which may contain water, I mount moistenin g means, comprising, as shown, a sheet of thin metal (1, that sustains a fibrous pad 6, preferably a sheet of lamp-wick. Preferably the piece of metal all will be bent into the form of an openended cylinder, and for cheapness of construction I prefer to make the same of tin or non-corrodible metal. This moistening device, it will be understood, does not rotate, but is held frictionally in the box; but it may be taken out and turned about inthe box to expose a new part of the wicking or pad that .may not have been subjected for any length posed for any length of time may be readily turned and left in the water in the box as long as desired. I

In Fig. 1 the straight full lines illustrate that a person using the apparatus has hold of the free end of the paper strip and is drawing the same in the'direction of the arrow outwardly across the moistening device, the strain of the paper depressing the lifting device, so that the gummed face of the paper is drawn over the moistening device. A proper length of paper having been drawn off and m oistenedthat depending upon the size of the package, box, or bundle to be wrapped, the user of the apparatus willlift and bend the strip about rod '0 and cut' the same, and immediately the paper having been severed the spring part of the paper-lifter rises into the dotted-line position, Fig. l, and removes the free end of the strip from such contact with the moistening device as would injure and weaken that part of the strip. i The wire at the sides of the lifter act as a guide for the edges of the strip.

To prevent the strip from sliding backwardly under the tube 6 when the strip is released by the operator and the strip-holder rises, I have added a device f, Fig. 1, the upper end of which contacts with the under side of the strip near where it crosses the under side of'the tube 6, said device preventing the strip from dropping or falling away from the tube. Were it not for the device f, owing to the fact that the strip passes under the tube and over the strip-lifter, it will be read ily apparent that the strip when relieved from strain might fall awayfrom the tube onto the bottom plate, and this movement might be sufficient under some circumstances to wholly withdraw the end of the strip from the striplifter.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an apparatus of the class described, a stand having a bolt, a tube surrounding said bolt and provided with a spring-sustained strip-lifter, a moistening device, and means for sustaining a roll of gummed paper.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, a moistening device, a spring-sustained striplifter, and a cutter, combined with a part presenting a circular flange, and a disk entering said flange, and means to move the disk to clamp the roll of paper of whatever thickness.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, means for sustaining a roll of gummed paper, a'strip-lifter, and a moistening device comprising a boxand a cylindrical piece of thin sheet metal sustaining a pad, said cylindrical piece being normally held stationary in the box, but adjustable therein to bring different portions of the pad into operative relation with the paper.

4:. In an apparatus of the class described, a box to contain water, a pad-holder, com prising a tube, and a fibrous covering thereon, the tube and covering being" normally restrained from rotation in the box, but adjustable therein to bring different portions of the fibrous covering into operative relation to the paper.

. 5. In an apparatus of the class described, a stand having a bolt, a tube surrounding said bolt and provided with a spring-sustained strip-lifter embracing and guiding the paper, a moistening device, means for sustaining a roll of gummed paper, and a device located behind said tube to sustain the strip of paper, said device preventing the strip from escaping from said tube.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE NORWOOD.

Witnesses:

vJOHN O. EDWARDS, MARGARET A. DUNN. 

